tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post114766970918860349..comments2024-03-12T03:53:57.725-04:00Comments on Faith and Theology: Jaroslav Pelikan: 1923-2006Ben Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1147711690885571782006-05-15T12:48:00.000-04:002006-05-15T12:48:00.000-04:00The Seattle Post has the obit-http://seattlepi.nws...The Seattle Post has the obit-<BR/>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Obit_Pelikan.htmlJimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16698562143972216357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1147691078635284982006-05-15T07:04:00.000-04:002006-05-15T07:04:00.000-04:00Thanks, Ben, for the obit. You might like to know...Thanks, Ben, for the obit. <BR/><BR/>You might like to know that as a result of conversations on F-T, I finally got around to getting <I>Christian Doctrine and Modern Culture (since 1700)</I> (1989), the final volume of <I>The Christian Tradition</I>. I must admit that, unlike the other volumes I've read (one and four), I found it disappointing, as if JP had run out of gas - or was simply less and less comfortable as history got more and more modern. (Interesting, in this context, his conversion to Orthodoxy.) But that's to be churlish: <I>The Christian Tradition</I> is an awesome achievement. Who will jump the bar?<BR/><BR/>However JP would have disapproved of your reference to his magnum opus being a "history of Christian <I>theology</I>"; he insisted explicitly that it was a history of Christian <I>doctrine</I>!<BR/><BR/>Finally, speaking of praising famous men, we should note the passing (on April 12th) of William Sloane Coffin. Though of course no academic theologian, what a pastor and prophet! While Billy Graham was busy playing Hananiah, Coffin stood out as a<BR/>pugnaciouis Jeremiah, a part he continued to play to the end, right in the face of the Religious Right: "How God must despise the spectacle of Christians who climb upon the cross to be seen from afar."<BR/><BR/>And clearly the good Lord himself smiled at Coffin's bon mot: "Clearly the trick in life is to die young as late as possible."<BR/><BR/>JP and WSC: RIP!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com